Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-05-06
DEATH IN THE WATER.
80 TIE ELEMENT WE DRINK DECIMA-
TING THE PE0PLEl
uow a Universal Menace to Health May be
Disarmed.

cities of the state were Frustrated
with a malignant disease, and upon
investigation it was found that only
those who used water from a famous
old well were the victims.
Professor S. A. Lpttimore, analyst
| of the New York State Board OF
Health, upon analysing water from
| this we'll, found it more deadly than
the city sewage!
The filling up of the old well stopped
the ravages of the disease.
Not long since the writer noticed
Wholesome men were making an ex-
cavation for large buildings stratum
of dark colored earth running from
near the surface to hard pan. There
it took another course toward a well
near at hand. The water from this well
had for years been tainted with the
DRAWINGS from receiving vault, the
percolations of which had discolored
the earth!
Terrible!
A similar condition of things exists
in every village and city where well
water is used, and though the tiltering
which the fluids receive in passing
through the earth may give them a
clear appearance, yet the poison and
disease remains, though the water may
look never SO clear.
1t is still worse with the farmer, for
Il h
The slops from the kitchen eventually
find their way into the family well
The same condition of things exists
in our large cities, whose water sup
plies are rivers fed by little streams that
carry off the filth and drainage from
houses. This "water" is eventually
drunk by rich and poor alike with
great evil.
Some cautious people resort to the
filter for purifying this water, but even
the filter does not remove this poison,
for water of the most deadly charac-
ter may pass through this filter and
become clear, yet the poison disguised
is there.
They who use filters know that they
must be renewed at regular periods,
for even though they do not t,ke out
all the impurity, they soon become
foul.
Now in like manner the human kid
Deys act as u filter for the blood, and
if they are filled up with impurities
and become foul, like the filter, all the
blood in the system cour.ing through
them becomes bad, for it is now
conceded fact that the kidneys are the
chief means whereby the blood is pur
flied. These organs are filled with
thousands of hairHke tubes which
drain the impurities from the blood
as the sewer pipes drain impuritie
from our houses.
If sewer pipe breaks un Ter tn
house, the sewage escapes into the
earth and fills the house with poison
Gus gas; SO if any of the thousand
and one little hair like sewer tubes o.
the kidneys break down, the entire
body is affected by this awful poison
1t is scientific fact that the kid
neys have few nerves of sensation;
and, consequently, disease may exisl
in these organs for long time and
not be suspected by the individual
1t is impossible to filter or take tn,
death out of the blood wnen the leas,
arrangement exists in these organ
and if the blood is not filtered then
the uric acid, or kidney poison, re-
movable only by Warmers safe cure
accumulates in the system and attack
any organ, producing nine out OF ten
ailments, just as sewer gas and bad
drainage produce so many fatal dis
orders.
Kidney disease may be known to
exist if there is any marked departure
from ordinary health without
known cause, and it should be under
stood by all that the greatest peril ex
lists, and is intensified, if there is the
least neglect to treat it prompt
with that great specific, Warmers safe
cure, remedy that has received The
highest recognition by scientific men
who have thoroughly investigated the
character of kidney arrangements.
They may not tell us that tie cause
of so many diseases in this organ i,
the impure water or any other on
thing, but this poisonous water with
its impurities coursing constantly
through these delicate organs I'M
doubleday does produce much of tn
decay and disease which eventually
terminate in the fatal Bright's disease
for this disease, alike among the drink
ing men, prohibitionists, the tobacco
slave, the laborer, the merchant and
the tramp, works terrible devastation
every year.
1t is we'll known that the liver which
is so easily thrown tout of gear" a
they say, very readily disturbs the ac
ton of the kidneys. That organ wheli
deranged, Immediately announces the
fact by sallow skin, constipated bowels
coated tongue and headaches, but the
kidney when diseased, struggles on foI
long time, and the fact of its diseas
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